Greener Kirkcaldy is a community-led charity working locally to bring people together, take positive action on the climate emergency and support people through fuel poverty and food insecurity. We deliver a range of projects, events and skills training to achieve the needs and goals of local people – building resilience as a community and working towards a future where everyone can live better and tread more lightly on our planet.

Based in the heart of Kirkcaldy – with a community building, training kitchen, bike shop and garden – we carry out activities across Kirkcaldy and work with partners to deliver projects across Fife.

Our community training kitchen, The Lang Spoon Community Kitchen, is a place for people to come together to cook, eat and learn. It offers training, volunteer and work experience opportunities, community cooking classes and a wide range of events, courses and workshops on all aspects of food and drink.

We run a regular community meal, a community fridge and range of activities for different groups, interests and demographics. This includes projects teaching people skills to cook on a budget, workshops promoting climate-friendly food, employability programmes, kids clubs and income-generating social enterprise classes. We also have a small kitchen garden, growing fresh ingredients. As well as activities on-site, we deliver events and workshops with groups in other community locations across Fife.

The Role

As Community Food Team Manager, you will lead the development, planning and management of our vibrant and busy community kitchen, ensuring delivery of a varied programme of community events and activities, in accordance with our values, funding commitments and social enterprise aspirations. You will also lead the development of new and enterprising ideas to grow our vision of a place for people to come together to grow, cook, eat and learn, working with the Senior Leadership Team to secure the resources to develop new project ideas.

You will use your leadership skills to manage and support the development of a team of four and ensure our Community Food Volunteers are adequately supported, supervised and celebrated.

You will use your existing knowledge of the local social, political and cultural community food landscape to ensure Greener Kirkcaldy continues to be recognised as an informed, trustworthy and impactful organisation by funders, partners and decision-makers in the sector.

Working at Greener Kirkcaldy

We want our town to be a good place to live and work. We believe in a future where everyone has a say in what happens locally, people are working together to protect our environment and those in hardship are supported to live well. That includes our staff and volunteers.

Working at Greener Kirkcaldy involves being part of a positive, collaborative and social team. Our culture is really important to us. We promote equality, diversity and openness. We have a strong focus on staff wellbeing and development and encourage staff initiative and ideas.

Benefits of working for Greener Kirkcaldy

• Flexible and hybrid working
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and sick pay
• Wellbeing, training and development opportunities
• Social events
• Diversity and inclusion

We want Greener Kirkcaldy to be an inclusive and diverse charity where everyone feels supported, valued and able to be themselves. We take part in Fife Centre for Equalities’ Equality Pathfinders programme. We also take part in the Race Equality Environmental Programme facilitated by CEMVO Scotland. Our Equalities Action Plan sets out the steps we are taking to improve diversity and inclusion.

To achieve our vision of Kirkcaldy as a greener and fairer place to live, we need a diverse team. We encourage applications from people of any background. We know that our sector particularly lacks staff and volunteers with Minority Ethnic backgrounds and disabled people. If you identify as Minority Ethnic or have a disability, we welcome your application.

If you need additional support to apply or take part in the recruitment process, please contact our Office Manager Dianne Girvan. Email dianne@greenerkirkcaldy.org.uk.

2 x vacancies – one role will involve working Monday evenings, the other will involve working one weekend per month (your preference will be discussed at interview).

We understand that many will have other commitments outside of work and so flexible working, part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements will be considered for the right candidate.

About Us:

Glasgow Council on Alcohol (GCA) was founded in 1965 and is the oldest established Council on Alcohol in Scotland. GCA is a voluntary organisation working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse through the provision of a range of high quality advice, information, counselling, support, prevention and education and training services.

Our mission is to provide evidence-based support to individuals, communities and government to improve health and wellbeing across Scotland.

The foundation of GCA is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.

GCA deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire.

About the Role:

The Diploma in Integrative Counselling is a COSCA Validated 2 year part time course. GCA is one of the founding COSCA members and adheres to the COSCA ethical framework for good practice in counselling, psychotherapy and counselling skills. The course requires tutors who are accredited by COSCA to Diploma level or committed to work towards accreditation. Tutors should be experienced Counsellors who are accredited with an appropriate professional body, or working towards accreditation (e.g., COSCA/BACP/UKCP).

The Course Tutor / Trainer will be embedded in one Diploma Class but will be expected to contribute to other classes when required and deliver COSCA skills courses and CPD training workshops when required.

Course Tutor / Trainers will be required to work evenings and weekends. Course Tutor / Trainers will also be assigned a specific class/cohort to work with.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate learning; delivering lectures, tutorials, experiential groups, supervision and observed skills practice feedback.
• Contribute to the creation of Diploma Policies and Procedures, including maintenance and updating of the course handbook.
• Create learning plans and appropriate materials in relation to both the Diploma and other COSCA course or CPD
• Attend Team Meetings/ Liaise with other Course Tutor / Trainers about course content & materials
• Issue pre course reading to students at regular intervals
• Engage with students via the Moodle forum on the learning support platform
• Hold responsibility for student welfare, offering 1:1 session to the students for whom the tutor is nominated personal tutor
• Mark and cross mark allocated assignments and provide written feedback, via Moodle and Turnitin
• Respond to correspondence by students via Moodle/email and ensure emails are checked and responded to on a weekly basis
• Share responsibility for monitoring content on Moodle, ensuring it has been updated for the class and ensuring materials in a variety of format are uploaded
• Keep adequate records, for example attendance, 1:1 recording, skills observation feedback, assignment extensions requests etc
• Assess students for fitness to practice and offer professional references in relation to placement, endorsement to practice and COSCA membership
• Support the Monitoring and evaluation of training
• Liaise with placement providers to ensure students can access opportunities in line with course requirements in liaison with the Lead Course Tutor
• Participate in the assessment interviews and intake of new students, liaising with the Head of Diploma and Training, Lead Course Tutors and Training Co-ordinator.
• Contribute to development of a CPD calendar, leading on aspects of planning and delivery
• Undertake any other duties as required by Head of Diploma and Training.

Qualifications and Experience :

• Diploma in Counselling/Psychotherapy
• Training qualification
• Accredited COSCA Diploma Trainer (or eligible to work towards this)
• Accredited COSCA/BACP/BABCP/UKCP
• Two Years Post qualified clinical experience
• Proven experience in education, training and delivering presentations.
• Proven experience in group working and enabling participation, partnership working preferable.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage with groups of people across age ranges
• Presentation and team working skills
• Ability to develop and deliver a range of training programs and support resources
• Knowledge of addiction issues, Motivational interviewing and Alcohol Brief Intervention Techniques and Trauma and trauma informed approaches
• Commitment to working in line with GCA’s values of collaboration, respect and empathy
• Ability to work proactively with strong self-direction and motivation.

Why Join Us?

• Your work will contribute to make a real difference to people’s lives.
• Competitive salary and benefits package :
  • Very generous annual leave entitlement: full time employees start with an annual leave entitlement of 37 days (inclusive of 12 bank holidays) which increases with length of service.
  • Duvet days where employees may take time off at short notice.
  • Death in service policy.
  • Cycle to work scheme where employees can save money on a new bike and spread the cost.
  • And much more!
• Opportunities for continuous learning and career development.
• A supportive and inclusive work environment where your contributions are valued

Would you like a career where you make a real difference to people’s lives and help to tackle the climate emergency? Then why not apply to join the Home Energy Scotland team employed by Changeworks, a leading organisation in Scotland dedicated to decarbonising Scotland’s homes and a just transition to net zero?

Home Energy Scotland is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by Changeworks in the South East and Highlands and Islands. Our advisors deliver free, impartial advice around reducing energy use to save money on bills, ways to keep your home warmer, renewable technologies, cutting water waste and more.

We are recruiting an Administrative Assistant to play a key role in the delivery of our Advice Centre services. We’re looking for a proactive team player with good interpersonal and organisational skills.

On a day-to-day basis, you'll be managing and organising data, helping out with event logistics, and maintaining accurate records on our customer database. There will also be a range of ad-hoc tasks, including meeting support, travel bookings, recruitment admin, and team events.

Through collaboration with passionate colleagues across operations, marketing, and advice services, you’ll be contributing to our mission of helping people live in warmer, more energy-efficient homes.

If you’re a team player with excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and a positive, solutions-focused mindset, we’d love to hear from you.

About us

Changeworks is a great place to work. We hold Investors in People Platinum accreditation (something only a few organisations in Scotland have), and we were nominated for employer of the year by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce this year. Our staff overwhelmingly would recommend us as an employer too.

The Climate Emergency has resulted in ambitious national targets to reduce carbon emissions from the built environment and reduce rates of fuel poverty. This has driven a significant increase in the number of pilot and large-scale interventions delivered by Changeworks and external organisations in this area. These include area-based domestic energy efficiency retrofit and decarbonisation projects and programmes.

We are a growing organisation, and this role is crucial to the delivery of our ambitious objectives. We want to decarbonise homes in Scotland on a massive scale, and that needs talented individuals like you to help us deliver on our objectives. You’ll receive full training plus coaching and mentoring.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including flexible working, bike to work scheme, an excellent pension scheme and 26 days paid holiday plus 9 public holidays per year.

At Changeworks, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.

Under the guidance of the Islands Estate Manager, the Camas Maintenance Worker’s role is to undertake general maintenance work on the facilities and equipment at the Camas Centre and occasionally on Iona.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring the Camas facilities and equipment are maintained to a safe and high standard, while observing Camas’ environmental and ethical policies. Facilities include the Camas buildings, grounds and track.
• Coordinating and supervising visitors and volunteers in routine maintenance work.
• Liaising with and working alongside outside contractors where necessary.
• Supporting maintenance projects on Iona where required.